1)Capital Punishment For or Against.?

Question

2)Should we have it in North America?
3)Should they have it for Multiple murderers, pedaphiles. rapests. terrorists, traitors?
What actions make you deserving of death?

Answer 1

Yes, I AM for the death penalty. I, myself, do believe it should be in all states in NA. I feel it is justifiable for murderers. Pedophiles, rapists..life in prison with NO possibility of paraole. Even in prison, there are social standings and these two are of the lowest class. As it should be..The ones who commit these types of crimes deserve nothing.
Honey, come on down to Texas..We will show the rest of the country how the death penalty works..Shoot, we almost have a "speedy check out lane" down here!...Like the saying goes.."Dont mess with Texas!".

Answer 2

1) yes, I am for
2) yes, in N.A.
3) Not as simple to answer as the first two.

Think the big mistake made with capital punishment is that it is used as revenge and not justice.

And revenge solves nothing.

Multiple murders, yes.
Traitors, yes.
Terrorists, yes, but you'd be making him a marter which may only encourage his fellas.
Pedophiles & rapests... my growly side says yes, but, though many are, undoubtedly giulty, there is enough opps and blind accusations to make capital punishment a bad choice.

And that brings up the opps issue.
We can appologise for a few bad years in prison for an innocent man (though never enough), but how do you take back a death sentence?
Anbd these sitting on Death Row for fifty years, every other month making the Dead Man's walk only to return to the cell... THAT is cruel, straight up.
And then there's the get-away-driver who gets the Death Sentece because the Murderer spoke up first....

Yes, I am for Capital Punishment.
Do I think it is a flawless system?
By far, no!
There are problems that need to be solved. And, in all honesty, I don't know how to solve them.

Thus....

The Chronicler

Answer 3

1. When you can bring an innocent person back from the dead after a wrongful conviction and execution, then "capital punishment" (read: state-practiced murder) will be acceptable. Anyone who has the opinion that "no innocent person has been executed" is wilfully ignorant. The USA alone has over 200 people released from death row because of DNA testing; how many more innocent people were executed can never be known, especially when considering past racism in the US and the number of black people on death row.

As well, this past February, the current Texas governor KNOWINGLY signed an execution order for Cameron Todd Willingham, a man he knew was innocent. Whether he was bloodthirsty or seeking to be "tough on crime", he has proven that "capital punishment" is more about political capital than about punishment for the crime.

http://www.txexecutions.org/reports/320.asp
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/na/chi-0412090169dec09,1,2000542.story?coll=chi-newsspecials-hed
http://www.innocenceproject.org/press/ArsonPageTwo.php

And let's not forget about overzealous and corrupt police, prosecutors and judges who want feathers in their caps rather than justice for the victims and convicting the guilty.

http://www.innocenceproject.org/press/index.php
> 22 Years After Wrongful Conviction – And After 12 Years Fighting
> for Access to Evidence – DNA Proves Alan Newton’s Innocence

> (BRONX, NY; July 6, 2006) – DNA tests prove that Alan Newton did
> not commit a rape, assault and robbery in the Bronx for which he
> was convicted in 1984 and sentenced to a total of 13 to 40 years
> in prison, the Innocence Project said today.
>
> [...]
>
> Newton’s exoneration comes 22 years after he was convicted for
> rape, robbery, and assault – and 12 years after his first motion
> for DNA testing was denied because the evidence in the case
> couldn’t be located by New York City Police Department officials.
> Late last year, after a formal request from the Bronx District
> Attorney’s Office, NYPD officials found the evidence in the NYPD’s
> Pearson Place Warehouse – in the exact bin where it was supposed
> to be, and where a Pearson Place official stated in writing he
> didn't see it after earlier requests.

2. Canada does not execute (read: murder) its contvicts. Despite a population 1/9th the size of the USA, the murder rate is 1/20th that of the USA. Civilized countries don't have the "death penalty", in both possible meanings of that statement.

3. Your "question" is irrelevant and specious until you address the matter of innocent people being convicted. If the Olympic Park bombing of 1996 had happened now, and Richard Jewell a falsely accused suspect today, do you honestly think he would not currently be in prison awaiting execution, rather than the christian terrorist Eric Rudolph?

But I'll humour you and answer it anyway: serial killers and convicted FLQ terrorists in Canada are locked away permanently, and are no threat to anyone. Life without parole has proven to serve its purpose.

Answer 4

I am agaisnt Capital Punishment. Spending 40 or more years in jail seems like such a worse punishment than death. When a person is sentanced to life in prison with no possiblity for parole, being put to death seems almost like a way out for that person. If a person has done something terrible, let them rot in jail.

Answer 5

I think people should be tortured not killed. I see death as an escape. The reason you have it in North America is because you are a nation of christians and believe that person will pay for their sins in hell. But In England, whilst we believe in Christianity as a nation it isnt that important to us and thus - no death row. But really grotty prisons
I think all prisons should be like Thai Jails
several people shoved in a cage and given rubbish food and bad clothes
You should be made and seen to suffer not 'escape' by being murdered

Answer 6

1) For it!
2) Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, and Yes.
3) All of the reasons you listed are quite sufficient. However I think any murder in the first degree is subject to the death penalty. If you planned it, and took action knowing what you were doing, this is definitely a good reason you should not be clogging our prisons.

Answer 7

A simple solution might be to outsource penal institutions to Somalia. Pay them $5.00 per day to keep guys like Kenny Boy Lay alive. Do an inmate count at the end of the month and pay them by the head. No need for death penalty, the inmates would do it themselves.

Answer 8

I am in favour of capital punishment. Rapists, murderers, terrorists, traitors all deserve to die because they have violated the social contract on which orderly social life depends.

Answer 9

i will put a spin on your question for all the readers to see and think about hay dig this right
we could avoid capital murder if the family of the victim could do what ever they wish to those guilty of such crimes would this totally deter criminals form such Hannis crimes if they knew if found guilty they would receive the same treatment they gave to the victim or skinned alive all teeth pulled or gutted and no mercy !

Answer 10

well i live in Australia and the punishment he ya is not good if you kill someone the most it could be 5years to 10 years and a rapists they get anywhere from 3years to 5years but it depends on how many times they kill and yes they all should have the same done to them as what they have done to others